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A Raisin in the Sun Resource Guide: Home

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What is Redlining?
A "Forgotten History" of How the US Government Segregated America
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The Fair Housing Act
"Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law"
Segregation by Design

Video & Audio

How Redlining Shaped Black America
Video
Housing Segregation and Redlining in America
Video
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
Video
"The Color of Law" Redlining in America
Audio
House Rules (This American Life)
Audio

Primary Sources

Federal Housing Authority's Racial Discrimination Policies (example from California)
Photo: "colored" housing (Federal Housing Administration)
Photo: Housing for white families (Federal Housing Administration)
When Willie Mays Was Denied Housing Because He Was Black
1957 cover of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper

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